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Re: [b-hebrew] Genesis 3:15 and order of ideas

From: "Heard, Christopher" <Christopher.Heard AT pepperdine.edu>
To: "Harold R. Holmyard III" <hholmyard AT ont.com>, b-hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
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Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Genesis 3:15 and order of ideas
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 10:37:43 -0800

On 12/22/04 6:38 AM, "Harold R. Holmyard III" <hholmyard AT ont.com> wrote:
> What makes me
> sympathetic with Doug's idea is that a man obviously deposits seed.
> Since ancients could see that, whether they understood anything about
> an egg would not be so important. They would have seen that the man
> planted seed in the woman. So the Hiphil of ZR( may have been a term
> to indicate that this seed germinated.

Yet our ideas about what "ancients ... would have seen" is not a solid basis
on which to make philological claims. Are there any _attested_ uses of the
verb ZR( taking a masculine subject and meaning "to impregnate"? I can't
find any in the Tanakh. Am I missing them?

Chris
--
R. Christopher Heard
Assistant Professor of Religion
Armstrong Fellow in Religion
Pepperdine University
http://faculty.pepperdine.edu/cheard
http://www.iTanakh.org
http://www.semioticsandexegesis.info

Re: [b-hebrew] Genesis 3:15 and order of ideas , (continued)
- Re: [b-hebrew] Genesis 3:15 and order of ideas, Revdpickrel, 12/21/2004
  - Re: [b-hebrew] Genesis 3:15 and order of ideas, Moshe Shulman, 12/21/2004
  - Re: [b-hebrew] Genesis 3:15 and order of ideas, Harold R. Holmyard III, 12/22/2004
    - Re: [b-hebrew] Genesis 3:15 and order of ideas, Moshe Shulman, 12/22/2004
    - Re: [b-hebrew] Genesis 3:15 and order of ideas, Heard, Christopher, 12/22/2004
      - Re: [b-hebrew] Genesis 3:15 and order of ideas, Jim West, 12/22/2004
        
        Re: [b-hebrew] Genesis 3:15 and order of ideas, Heard, Christopher, 12/22/2004
      - Re: [b-hebrew] Genesis 3:15 and order of ideas, Harold R. Holmyard III, 12/22/2004
        
        Re: [b-hebrew] Genesis 3:15 and order of ideas, Heard, Christopher, 12/22/2004
- Re: [b-hebrew] Genesis 3:15 and order of ideas, George F Somsel, 12/21/2004
- Re: [b-hebrew] Genesis 3:15 and order of ideas, George F Somsel, 12/22/2004
  - Re: [b-hebrew] Genesis 3:15 and order of ideas, Jim West, 12/22/2004
  - Re: [b-hebrew] Genesis 3:15 and order of ideas, Harold R. Holmyard III, 12/22/2004
- Re: [b-hebrew] Genesis 3:15 and order of ideas, George F Somsel, 12/22/2004
- Re: [b-hebrew] Genesis 3:15 and order of ideas, Karl Randolph, 12/22/2004